Students’ performance data is an advisory note on how well the teachers are delivering classroom instruction and how well students are receiving classroom instruction and applying themselves. Teaching and assessment make teacher-student classroom engagements a truly give and take process. Teaching and learning are symbiotic processes where the giver and receiver thrive on feedback.
In classroom interactions, nobody stops learning. Teachers are not static entities whose learning began and ended at the pre-service qualification stage. There is so much learning on the field. Years of pedagogical practice make teachers grow, mellow and get refined like old wine. Teachers continue to learn and so are their students. The school teaching and learning environment can, therefore, be summed up as a continuing and dynamic learning community where teachers strive to teach hard as much as they learn hard in their endeavour to reach best pedagogical practices. Students too can realise where they stand in the learning process and achieve their full potential when prepared to learn from their strengths as well as their limitations. Working in groups rather than as isolated entries help students to learn better and navigate their learning tasks with relative ease. Students should cultivate a culture of learning from their peers either in the classroom normal teaching time or in a relaxed, less exacting environment at home. Uniformity in a school should be standard practice. Students in block B should not be made to envy the progress made in Block A.
